Its not the fact that we need rafer we just need a true point guard out there, yeah rafer would help but if he played and bricked shots everyone would say trade rafer which i am all for but we need to find another pg out there
Yao is talking too much this season. How about do something about it instead of just constantly ranting? 6 rebounds in 38 minutes against Toronto one of the worst rebounding team in NBA... I guess it's your teammates fault that you didn't box out
once again yao rants after a loss. What good is this gonna do? He did the same thing after sacramento. What is the real problem yao? The system? Does tmac secretly hate francis? Does the stupid motion offense just not work for the rockets? Do you miss Gundy? Making vague comments to the media isnt solving the problem.
Where did you get that from? Steve was playing more of a SG this game. T-Mac was the one that brought the ball up, Yao got most of his passes when the ball was swung around to the baseline, that seem to be the game plan. Steve does not hesitate when he gets the ball and swing it to the opposite corner and that player will decide if Yao should've being posted up or not.
SF3 played SG, and Tmac played PG for this game? You are genius! The fact is that SF3 always gave the ball to Tmac. It seems he didn't have confidence in Yao and himself!
New NBA slogan: "I hate this game!" followed soon by: "NBA action, it's craptastic" Make it happen, Dictator Stern.
Today Yao got his first point was 2 min left in the 1st quarter. At that time, all other rockets players got points except Yao. Then, James substitued SF3, and he passed the ball to Yao.
"no (adherence to the) game plan" I'm wondering did Yao really mean we didn't excute or AD didn't have a game plan
The system is not the problem. On the rare occasions when the motion offense is working we look good and make it hard for other teams to beat us. It's the players.They have to take responsibility.Adelman also needs to take responsibility for not getting the players ready for this game but mostly it's the players who are at fault.
Oh brother! Thanks for the opinion. I hope we are wrong but the evidence seem strong. JVG ran his course here but this team needs a firm hand who will bite people when they slack off, not a "players coach". JVG's style was NOT the problem, it was his bad offense.
But...but, JVG didn't know how to manage a competent offense and was boring...how could this team not flourish under an offensive 'mastermind' like Adelman. Oh, wait, we're waiting for the team to 'get use to the system' then we'll be L33t!!!! It doesn't matter IC2000, no matter how poorly the Rox do this season the JVG haters will ride RA's jock b/c they didn't like JVG's 'unlikeable' persona and whine about how much better we are now...with a better roster...and how JVG couldn't get us out of the 1st round(no matter how badly Tmac and Yao played or how bad our bench was). Adelman is a god!!!! JVG is a peasant!!!! I stand by my statements early...this team will disappoint...probably worse than last years team. We took a step back this year. Thanks Gundy haters(mainly Les)...you really know your bball. Hmm, maybe I'm wrong. I'm not sure though. Barry said we'd need about 2-3 years to get use to the system...that's pretty cool, huh? I guess we should all come back in 2009-2010 then, right? LOL. Because this team is NOWHERE close to a championship..and if you like watching us win every few games to bad teams and occasionaly a good team then, hey, more power to ya. I for one am tired of watching a team that is mediocre and rolls over like a b**** in the playoffs when the going gets tough...Yao is weak, Tmac is weak and that's not going to change..ever. We need to trade them both and start over...again. Oh well, maybe 2020 is our year? ROFLMAO, what will the slogan be then? "2020 Houston Rockets...will you believe in us THIS time? We need your money!!!"
That's just it... I asked this in one of the first replies -- why did the Houston Chronicle add "adherence to the" in the middle of that statement? The Chronicle's addition implies the Rockets had a game plan but didn't follow it -- without their addition, he's saying the Rockets don't have a game plan. And when you consider what Yao said right after it, that the Rockets "don't know our game, don't know their game". To me, that is criticism of the coaches.
Do we really have a system we can rely on, even when going gets tough? If we do, then we're not sticking to a game plan. If we do, then it's a problem of intensity, not a problem of talent or system. We need somebody that brings that fire every game, we have enough talent.
can't agree more, Coach A maybe better in "Personnel" aspect b/c he set the players free and some of them can just shoot million times any night(T-mac even MJ!) but the vital thing is he lacks the same thing the team lacks:Toughness! Oh god I miss JVG's shouting
Someone said it earlier. The ROckets didn't and still don't have a leader. Yao and Tracy are not leaders. They depended on Juwan and Deke and Barry and Wesley all those years to be their vocal leaders, but they didn't actually have a leader on the court. JVG was the closest thing they had to a leader, and his intense personality and micro-managing was good for Yao, Tracy, Head, and others. Without someone harping on them, players aren't as intense and don't play with as much passion or sense of urgency. Kobe and Shaq were leaders. MJ was a leader. Isiah was a leader. Hakeem was a leader. Tracy and Yao are not. The 2004 Pistons didn't have a leader. But Larry Brown was, and they got it done. It can be done. Just not with RA. The ROckets got rid of their only hope under the Tracy-Yao era, and that man is happy in ESPN's TV booth.
